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Rock

noun

1.

A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter. Synonym: stone.

2.

Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust. Synonym: stone. "Stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"

3.

United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984). Synonym: John Rock.

4.

(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable. "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church"

5.

Hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint). Synonym: rock candy.

6.

A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western. Synonyms: rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music.

7.

Pitching dangerously to one side. Synonyms: careen, sway, tilt.

verb

(past & past part. rocked;pres. part. rocking)

1.

Move back and forth or sideways. Synonyms: shake, sway. "The tall building swayed" , "She rocked back and forth on her feet"

2.

Cause to move back and forth. Synonym: sway. "Rock the baby" , "The wind swayed the trees gently"

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"Rock" Quotes from Famous Books

... origin to Babylonia. It was from "Ur of the Chaldees" that Abraham "the Hebrew" had come, the rock out of which it was hewn. Here on the western bank of the Euphrates was the earliest home of the Hebrews, of whom the Israelites claimed to be ...

— Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations • Archibald Sayce

... no answer, only looked at her with the same steady gentleness. That look, so calm, yet so inexorable, left her no vestige of hope. A rock would have yielded sooner than Michael Burnett, and ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... Over life's tempestuous sea; Unknown waves before me roll, Hiding rock and treacherous shoal; Chart and compass come from Thee, Jesus, Savior, ...

— The Kirk on Rutgers Farm • Frederick Bruckbauer

... of 1952, I obtained a southern bog lemming, Synaptomys cooperi, at Rock Creek State Fish Hatchery, Dundy County, in extreme southwestern Nebraska. This locality of record is the westernmost for the species in North America. Subsequently, I reported this specimen in the literature (Univ. ...

— A New Bog Lemming (Genus Synaptomys) From Nebraska • J. Knox Jones

... party were on the point of starting, some of them observed that it was a pity to leave so lovely a spot without resting awhile among the flowers. This was immediately agreed to, and they took their seats on a moss-grown rock, a short distance from which a little streamlet ...

— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various

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